Americans have never been so distrustful of their country’s political leaders and major institutions, or more gloomy about the future. This is much more than unhappiness about the economy and unemployment. Across the US and in Europe, there’s a profound crisis of confidence in the democratic-capitalist system. In the years ahead, American and western European society will continue to disintegrate because the factors behind the decline are still in place, and because the prevailing system operates on the basis of ideology of egalitarianism, universalism, “diversity” and multiculturalism, which is ruinous in the long run.